Coming up for air
(1969)
Fiction
eBook
Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1969
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DESCRIPTION
1 online resource
ISBN/ISSN
9780547564029 (electronic bk.) MWT11990654, 0547564023 (electronic bk.) 11990654
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
George Bowling, the hero of this comic novel, is a middle-aged insurance salesman who lives in an average English suburban row house with a wife and two children. One day, after winning some money from a bet, he goes back to the village where he grew up, to fish for carp in a pool he remembers from thirty years before. The pool, alas, is gone, the village has changed beyond recognition, and the principal event of his holiday is an accidental bombing by the RAF
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